The Las Palmas Herald
Squad5 Apr 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Calvin Stengs
99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Apr 2032
Michael Sambataro hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout5 Apr 2032
Iván Moya keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Las Palmas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Apr 2032
Only the photograph left for Yago Cantero
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yago Cantero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Las Palmas the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Apr 2032
No end in sight to Las Palmas's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Las Palmas has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings5 Apr 2032
Israel Domínguez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Apr 2032
Michael Sambataro in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Apr 2032
Las Palmas cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad5 Apr 2032
Aleix Garrido falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Michael Sambataro did the work nobody counts — 7.15
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Alexis Hallez
- Squad João Costa stays put